Četverored

Četverored is 1999 Croatian drama war film directed by Jakov Sedlar. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Aralica, the plot of the film deals with the Bleiburg massacre. It was the first film to deal with the subject, formerly a taboo topic under the Communist government. Četverored was aired on television only a week after its theatrical release in Zagreb, in what was characterised by part of the public as an electoral ploy to support the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which subsequently lost the 2000 elections.

== Content == The film shows the atmosphere in Zagreb before the arrival of the Yugoslav Partisans and focuses on the fate of a group of actors of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb who decide to go into exile with parts of the defeated Croatian Home Guard. Their fates intertwine with the fates of soldiers and civilians on the way to Bleiburg, following the ever-increasing uncertainty into which they go, the complete anarchy that follows the retreat and the cruel confrontations that occur between individual military leaders blinded by hatred and defeat. In the second part of the chronicle, after the surrender and capture on the Bleiburg field, the refugees go through a harsh captivity on the Way of the Cross, where they are tormented by hunger and thirst, and death lurks at every step.